Witness: Acre driver was angry over parking ticket

4 March 2018, 2:26 pm

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A witness to a possible ramming attack in the northern city of Acre says the driver of the vehicle began plowing into people after getting a parking ticket.

“The driver got a ticket for NIS 1,000 ($290) for parking in a handicapped spot. He got pissed off and went up on the sidewalk [and] then struck a traffic light and some bushes and ran over a border guard,” Shimon Cohen tells the Ynet new site.

Cohen says a cop tried to shoot the driver but missed. He says the driver then proceeded toward the train station where he hit a pair of IDF soldiers.

Police say they know the identity of the driver, who is reported to be an Arab Israeli man from the town of Shfaram.